75+ Essential Books By Women/Non-Binary Writers

1.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,072,904 ratings
2.
Cabello: Mineau (Cabello #1)
Cabello: Mineau (Cabello #1) 3.80 avg rating — 54 ratings
2.
The Pack: Addison (The Pack, #1)
The Pack: Addison (The Pack, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
4.
Amarna Book I: Book of Ida
Amarna Book I: Book of Ida 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
5.
Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay
Rebellion Book I: Book of Quay 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
6.
Miael: Family
Miael: Family 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
7.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,972 ratings
8.
Little Birds
Little Birds 3.69 avg rating — 13,431 ratings
9.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things 3.96 avg rating — 317,147 ratings
10.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,161 ratings
11.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,717 ratings
12.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
No One Belongs Here More Than You 3.80 avg rating — 43,860 ratings
13.
The Mousetrap and Other Plays
The Mousetrap and Other Plays 4.04 avg rating — 6,505 ratings
14.
Astragal
Astragal 3.66 avg rating — 2,600 ratings
14.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,227 ratings
14.
Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse 3.73 avg rating — 66,208 ratings
17.
Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus 3.88 avg rating — 14,348 ratings
17.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 227,515 ratings
17.
Gravity and Grace
Gravity and Grace 4.27 avg rating — 3,548 ratings
20.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,090 ratings
21.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,733 ratings
22.
Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day 3.72 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
22.
Kitchen
Kitchen 3.90 avg rating — 121,473 ratings
24.
Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red 4.26 avg rating — 34,577 ratings
25.
Live or Die
Live or Die 4.09 avg rating — 1,928 ratings
26.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,275 ratings
27.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
27.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,740 ratings
29.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,906 ratings
30.
Master Georgie
Master Georgie 3.53 avg rating — 2,380 ratings
31.
West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,230 ratings
32.
The Joys of Motherhood
The Joys of Motherhood 4.21 avg rating — 8,107 ratings
32.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner 3.69 avg rating — 91,974 ratings
34.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,835 ratings
34.
The Human Condition
The Human Condition 4.20 avg rating — 9,180 ratings
36.
I Love Dick
I Love Dick 3.48 avg rating — 19,644 ratings
36.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,270 ratings
38.
Chéri
Chéri
by: Colette
3.67 avg rating — 6,010 ratings
39.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,919 ratings
40.
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
A Vindication of the Rights of Women 3.92 avg rating — 26,298 ratings
41.
Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
Inferno (A Poet's Novel) 3.89 avg rating — 2,656 ratings
42.
Women as Lovers
Women as Lovers 3.74 avg rating — 3,881 ratings
43.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,922 ratings
44.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,389 ratings
45.
The Making of Americans
The Making of Americans 3.55 avg rating — 583 ratings
46.
To Disembark
To Disembark 3.98 avg rating — 66 ratings
46.
Genji Monogatari
Genji Monogatari 3.72 avg rating — 14,370 ratings
48.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,295 ratings
48.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,696 ratings
50.
Poems and Fragments
Poems and Fragments
by: Sappho
4.17 avg rating — 10,970 ratings
50.
On Beauty
On Beauty 3.78 avg rating — 89,019 ratings
52.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,621 ratings
53.
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book 4.02 avg rating — 9,588 ratings
54.
The Sea, the Sea
The Sea, the Sea 3.96 avg rating — 24,390 ratings
55.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,427 ratings
56.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 4.18 avg rating — 4,620 ratings
56.
The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1)
The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 20,275 ratings
58.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,032 ratings
58.
The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark 3.89 avg rating — 11,527 ratings
60.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,027 ratings
61.
Feuchtgebiete
Feuchtgebiete 2.87 avg rating — 11,678 ratings
61.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,733 ratings
63.
A Bloodsmoor Romance
A Bloodsmoor Romance 3.79 avg rating — 649 ratings
64.
Heroines
Heroines 4.14 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
65.
Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School 3.46 avg rating — 6,851 ratings
66.
The Hearing Trumpet
The Hearing Trumpet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,850 ratings
67.
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,579 ratings
68.
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? 3.83 avg rating — 14,380 ratings
69.
The Beet Queen
The Beet Queen 3.87 avg rating — 14,453 ratings
70.
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
The Ravishing of Lol Stein 3.60 avg rating — 5,865 ratings
71.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,122 ratings
72.
Abeng
Abeng 3.72 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
73.
Les Guérillères
Les Guérillères 3.92 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
74.
The Driver's Seat
The Driver's Seat 3.60 avg rating — 12,087 ratings
75.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,312 ratings
76.
An Untamed State
An Untamed State 4.07 avg rating — 19,599 ratings
77.
Darling River
Darling River 3.68 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
78.
Dictee
Dictee 4.03 avg rating — 3,846 ratings
79.
Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions 4.04 avg rating — 22,076 ratings
80.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings